The Unbusy Mom: For entrepreneur moms who don't want their business to take over their life.
Your business shouldn't take over your life.
I don't think that's why any of us started a business.
We wanted flexibility. We wanted to be there when our kids got home from school. We wanted to build something we loved without feeling like we had to sacrifice the rest of our lives to do it.
And yet... somehow it starts feeling like everybody gets a piece of you before you ever get to what mattered most.
The client needs an answer.
Your team has a question.
Someone forgot their water bottle.
The marketing project waits another week. Again.
If you've ever ended the day thinking, "I worked all day... so why does it feel like I never got to my own stuff?" ...you're in the right place.
Around here, we don't obsess over productivity hacks.
We get curious about what's quietly been running your week.
The patterns. The responsibilities you never meant to keep carrying. The things that somehow became "just how business works."
Because I don't think entrepreneur moms need another planner.
I think we need businesses that leave room for our lives.
So every week, we'll unpack the patterns I keep seeing, the questions I'd be asking, and the little shifts that help entrepreneur moms get their days back.
Because you wanted business AND kids.
Not business OR kids.
The Unbusy Mom: For entrepreneur moms who don't want their business to take over their life.
You Have 47 Tabs Open Again
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Some days you wake up motivated - some days you don't.
But it's kind of suspicious when the same project keeps getting delayed on both kinds of days.... ;)
At least, ‘til motivation stops deciding whether Tuesday works.
That's where my brain starts asking questions.
☕️ Thursday at the Coffee Shop
Drop into Voxer anytime Thursday.
Bring me the one project your to-do list has basically adopted at this point. 😂
Maybe it's a site update.
Maybe it's a launch decision.
Maybe it's something that's been living on your Tuesday list for... longer than either of us would like to admit. 😂
I'll wander through Voxer with a cup of coffee and tell you what keeps catching my eye.
No presentation. No "come prepared." No homework (unless you ask for it).
Just a conversation about the business thing that absolutely refuses to graduate. 😂
Coffee Shop Thursdays this series:
☕️ August 20 - The Busy Trap
☕️ August 27 - The Busy Trap
☕️ September 3 - The Busy Trap
I'll keep taking conversations throughout the day ‘til Thursday fills up.
It's 2pm.
You still need to finish the client notes, make the offer decision, and figure out why you opened this tab. (Nobody knows.)
So you tell yourself: “Just a couple more hours.”
Which seems perfectly reasonable…. until your brain responds by rereading the same paragraph twice.
Or opening a tab and immediately forgetting why. And sitting down to work on something important but spending a full minute staring at it first.
Not working on it. Just... looking at it. Like maybe it'll introduce itself.
No, the project didn’t change - but something sure did.
And it's easy to assume the problem is motivation. That you've run out of discipline. Run out of energy. Run out of patience.
Meanwhile, your brain is still replaying the client call - remembering the email you forgot to send - debating the offer decision - AND keeping one tab open for the random thing you were supposed to remember after lunch.
You moved on…. Your brain apparently did not.
Which is how you can technically have an hour to make one offer decision… and spend 45 minutes trying to get enough of your brain in the same place to make it.
You push a bit longer. Reread the same paragraph again. Bounce between tabs. Keep looking away from the thing you're trying to finish…. Until eventually you step away.
Not because you planned to - because you've hit your limit.
The interesting part is that the limit usually didn't show up at 2pm - it started much earlier. Back when your brain first began collecting things it never got a chance to put down.
And the moms who seem to have a little more focus later in the day aren't necessarily more motivated. They're simply carrying fewer unfinished things at the same time.
Until one day, 2pm feels suspiciously less dramatic.
The offer decision is still a decision. The email still needs to be written - you just don't have 46 other tabs trying to participate.